... All this, however, only concerns Jamaica, and though that island is the largest and most importaut of our interests in the Caribbean Sea, its prosperity would only incidentally affect the general problem of West Indian development. To solve this the islands ...

... United States, says, must equally effective in the Pacific and the Atlantic, predominance of American naval power in the Caribbean Sea being essential to preserve the use of the Isthmian Canal to the commerce the States. IVe learn, therefore, without snrpri«o ...

... United States Clout and Geodetic Survey. The trade winds blowing from the east pile up the water in the western end of the Caribbean Sea, and, bang obliged to find some outlet, it makes its way northward through the Yucatan Channel into the Gulf of Mexico ...

... waning year in the tropics, and has strolled along the amber sand that edges one of the river-creeks of an island in the Caribbean, can forget the stimulus to his, sporting instincts of the slow, low snort as, lying at the bottonm of a shallow, the manatee ...